Secondary Recommendation

Tarsus

April 2012

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The month saw Tarsus report good full year results, a placing and an acquisition. The purchase of Turkish exhibition organiser Lifemedia Fuarcilik is a significant step towards its “50/13” strategy as it takes emerging market exposure to 43%. Established in 1997, Lifemedia has a leading position in Turkey's housewares and gifts exhibition sector with two annual exhibitions: a large established event called Zuchex covering 41,600 sq m held in September and Ideal Home Fair, the smaller event covering 18,400 sq m, held in April. For 2011, Life Media had sales of £4.4m and made a pretax profit of £2.2m. Tarsus is paying £10.6m (plus £5m deferred) for a 70% shareh ...

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Tarsus

April 2012

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